THE LAUNCH PAD COMPETITION, IN EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH BAD IDEA AND RECON LITERARY, IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS FOR THE 2019 LAUNCH PAD PILOT COMPETITION!

Every year, the quality of submissions seems to get better and better, and this year’s competition is no exception. We are honored to have been able to read such an imaginative, innovative and skillful collection of scripts from writers across the globe, and we look forward to sharing that work with the industry. We want to thank our judges for taking the time to read our finalists and make the difficult decisions that give us this fantastic group of winners.

With all of that said, we’re incredibly proud to announce our Overall Winner, Top Comedy Winner, Top Drama Winner, Recon Literary Guaranteed Signing Winner, Bad Idea Guaranteed Option Winner, and the three Launch Pad Mentorship Winners.

Congratulations to our winners and to all of our finalists. We cannot wait to see what comes next!

Overall Winner

Top Comedy

Top Drama

Bad Idea Guaranteed Option Winner

Recon Literary Guaranteed Signing Winner

Mentorship Program Winners

(Listed Alphabetically)

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 10 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

It has never been more difficult to narrow down our finalists, as every one of these projects signals the arrival of a unique new voice. Half of this year’s top 10 come from female writers, and the ten include four half-hour and six hour-long scripts. From absurdist comedy to animated adventures, from hilarious science fiction to gritty crime dramas, these pilots are a fantastic collection of genres, tones and styles.

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 10, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 10!

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 25 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 25 pilots plunge us into immersive new worlds, bringing us behind the scenes of stage magic and beauty pageants, past prison gates and closed borders, through time and into space. It has been a true pleasure to read the exceptional writing of this year’s finalists, and we are honored to be able to share their innovative work with the world!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 25, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 25!

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 50 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 50 introduce us to a wide range of captivating characters, from unpopular adolescent glowworms to Greek gods struggling with the intricacies of the social media age. Telling stories about the real people who shaped human history, athletes with immense pressure on their shoulders and teenagers just trying to figure things out, these pilots thrive on the strength of the unique, challenging, and lovable characters who give them life.

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 50, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 50!

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 75 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 75 pilots will take you all over the globe, from a wacky Hawaiian resort to the secret halls of the Vatican, from a North Korean news station to the bustling streets of Morocco. Spanning such distant settings as the libraries of Oxford in the 1960s, the Royal Palaces of Revolutionary Paris, Black Wall Street in 1920s Tulsa and of course present day Los Angeles, these pilots transport the reader to places both strange and familiar through masterful writing and passionate storytelling.

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 75!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 75, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 100 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are proud to welcome a new batch of writers to this prestigious Launch Pad community.

With a mix of hour-long and half-hour formats and genres that run the gamut from dark comedy to over-the-top satire to gritty thrillers and fantastical adventures, this year’s crop of pilots is more exciting and diverse than ever before. This year, fully half of our finalist scripts have a female writer, and our finalists come from multiple countries across the globe.

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 100!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 100, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

WELCOME TO THE LAUNCH PAD PILOT COMPETITION!

Year six is here, and the competition that has led to more signings, success stories and careers than any other writing competition in the world is now underway. With more than 415 signings, 145 projects set up, 64 writers staffed, 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List, as well as 7 bidding wars, the Launch Pad Competition has become the premiere hub for Hollywood discovering new talent.

WHAT MAKES LAUNCH PAD SO SUCCESSFUL?

By utilizing our deep relationships within the industry we’ve not only become the only competition that continually features Studio Presidents and Agency/Management Company Partners as judges, but the only one that has also formed exclusive partners with people such as Ridley Scott, Michael De Luca, Roy Lee, Joel Silver, Jeremy Garelick, Adrian Askarieh, as well as companies Artillery Creative, Bellevue, Echo Lake, Endgame Entertainment, Energy Entertainment, ESA, Fourth Wall Management, Good Fear Film Management, Heroes & Villains, Inkshares, Lee Stobby Entertainment, Oil & Cattle, Paradigm, UTA and WME – all of whom have previously committed to guarantee to option material or sign writers out of our competitions.

Additionally, we continually shake up our judges pool, carefully selecting the judges we feel will best represent each competition, all the while ensuring a consistent balance of hot-newcomers and seasoned veterans. And, as you’ll see from this years list of phenomenal judges, not only do we work diligently to ensure our judges make up a creative mix of representatives who can sign writers and executives who can acquire projects, but we always work to include those who’ve had great success with our Launch Pad writers before.

WHAT MAKE US DIFFERENT FROM THE REST?

For most competitions on the market today, whether win or lose, the finish line usually comes with a brief blog post announcing winners on the competition site, immediately followed by a new competition turning on. For us, that was never even close to enough. Our focus has always been on discovery and elevation. The reality is, a vast majority of the writers working in Hollywood today got their start with a competition. But, they also lost or made finalist rounds in several that never blinked an eye. While it’s impossible to discover every great writer every year, we go to great lengths to ensure those who make any finalist rounds with us are given attention far beyond a blog post. We not only advocate for all of our finalists, and work closely with them to fine tune loglines, bios, and additional works, but we also feature all of our finalists in our high regarded Launch Pad Alum Booklets, our “Best Scripts of the Year” lists, our industry released Announcements, and via our partners we also include them in the end of year Spec Book, Hit List and Young & Hungry List.

Additionally, we work with every finalist to prepare you for what comes next – whether representation meetings, pitch meetings or generals. Preparing a series bible for your TV pilot, crafting your additional works for interested reads, and navigating the series of meetings that inevitably follow. We track every read received through the competition, and we share all of this info with you along with the way, so you know who’s reading, and can gauge how far your work truly is going. And, as our end of competition and end of year lists go out to the more than 25,000 industry members we work with, as well as to our exclusive panel of former partners and judges, we’ll work with you to be sure you put your best foot forward every step of the way.

GUARANTEED OPTION PRIZE

We are thrilled to announce our exclusive guaranteed option partner for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition is Bad Idea, a diversified entertainment company founded to create high quality, engaging and story-driven content for global audiences. The company is aimed at discovering and developing new voices to be heard and seen across Narrative Film, Television, Documentaries, and Emerging Platforms. Some of their recent projects have included El Chapo (Netflix) and Opening Night starring Topher Grace & Taye Diggs (Netflix), and they recently sold Deadtectives starring Chris Geere and Martha Higareda (Shudder / AMC).

As in previous competitions, our guaranteed option partner(s) will select a minimum of 1 project from this years competition to option. To be eligible for the guaranteed option prize, all entrants MUST select the “Guaranteed Option” add-on at time of sign up.

GUARANTEED SIGNING PRIZE

To continue the Launch Pad’s long tradition of helping writers to gain representation, with more than 400 signings to date, we are proud to announce this year’s Guaranteed Signing Partner as Adrian Garcia of Recon Entertainment. A former talent agent at Paradigm, Adrian Garcia went on to found his management company Recon Entertainment to continue and broaden his work with talented writers. Garcia has had writers appear on the Hit List, Black List and/or Young & Hungry List every year since 2014, and has a proven track record of signing Launch Pad writers, including winner Eric Koenig who sold his Launch Pad winning script Matriarch to Paramount in a bidding war.

As in previous competitions, our guaranteed signing partner(s) will select a minimum of 1 writer from this years competition to represent. To be eligible for the guaranteed signing prize, all entrants MUST select the “Guaranteed Signing” add-on at time of sign up.

THE LAUNCH PAD MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Here at the Launch Pad, we know that getting started in the industry can be difficult, but that the best way to learn the ropes is by working closely with experienced writers who have already proven themselves and forged a path to success. That is why the Launch Pad is proud to offer exclusive mentorship opportunities for our writers to learn from those who have been there before and have insight on the process of breaking in.

Our first mentor this year is Jenny Deiker Restivo, who is currently a writer on the hit Fox show The Resident. A firsthand example of the success that can come from the Launch Pad Competitions, Jenny won the Launch Pad Pilot Competition in 2016 and landed on the Young & Hungry List later that year. She was selected for the 2018 Fox Writers Lab and her sci-fi Pilot, VESTA, is currently on WeForShe’s 2019 WriteHer List. Jenny loves genre television and dark dramas. 

Also on board as a mentor this year is Simone Finch, who has worked for Barbara Hall on Madam Secretary and Bruce Helford on Roseanne, most recently co-writing an episode of The Conners. A native of Boston, Simone received a BA in Theatre from McGill University in Montreal before moving to Los Angeles and starting a successful climb up the industry ranks.

Our final mentor is Julian Silver, a writer who appeared on the 2018 Black List and Hit List alongside writing partner Reiss Clauson-Wolf for their script The Seventh, about Custer’s Last Stand. He has also served as a Story Editor on the CBS drama SEAL Team, for which he has written four episodes. As an actor, he has appeared in guest spots on Grey’s Anatomy and Criminal Minds. 

REAL NOTES = REAL FEEDBACK

Continuing with the same educational ideas behind the origination of the mentorship program, and continually looking to identify new ways to give our writers even more of a leg up when entering the Launch Pad Competition, we’re thrilled to announce the return of our Feedback Notes Program. Rather than receiving a few vague disconnected sentences or paragraphs from other coverage services or competitions out there, we’ve struck a deal with our professional readers (reading for places such as Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Sony, Paramount, Universal, Anonymous Content, Circle of Confusion, CAA, UTA, Paradigm, Skydance and more) to provide 1-2 pages of in-depth notes on your competition entry. With an emphasis on initial thoughts, opinions and analysis, get an inside look at what is usually a behind the curtain process, and get our readers’ perspectives on the story, characters, marketability, and ideas for where the story could go. Was it a page-turner? Did we want to see more of a character? Was the dialogue believable? Get the actionable notes and insight you deserve.

The Launch Pad is more than just a writing competition. We’re here to be the first step in starting your writing career.

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 25 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 25 pilots plunge us into immersive new worlds, bringing us behind the scenes of stage magic and beauty pageants, past prison gates and closed borders, through time and into space. It has been a true pleasure to read the exceptional writing of this year’s finalists, and we are honored to be able to share their innovative work with the world!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 25, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 25!

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 50 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 50 introduce us to a wide range of captivating characters, from unpopular adolescent glowworms to Greek gods struggling with the intricacies of the social media age. Telling stories about the real people who shaped human history, athletes with immense pressure on their shoulders and teenagers just trying to figure things out, these pilots thrive on the strength of the unique, challenging, and lovable characters who give them life.

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 50, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 50!

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 75 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are thrilled to introduce the newest group of talented Launch Pad writers.

This year’s Top 75 pilots will take you all over the globe, from a wacky Hawaiian resort to the secret halls of the Vatican, from a North Korean news station to the bustling streets of Morocco. Spanning such distant settings as the libraries of Oxford in the 1960s, the Royal Palaces of Revolutionary Paris, Black Wall Street in 1920s Tulsa and of course present day Los Angeles, these pilots transport the reader to places both strange and familiar through masterful writing and passionate storytelling.

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 75!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 75, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

Alongside our exclusive competition partners Bad Idea and Recon Literary, we are thrilled to announce the Top 100 Finalists for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition.

The Launch Pad Competitions have led to more than 450 signings, 164 projects set up, 68 writers staffed, 7 bidding wars, and 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List. We are proud to welcome a new batch of writers to this prestigious Launch Pad community.

With a mix of hour-long and half-hour formats and genres that run the gamut from dark comedy to over-the-top satire to gritty thrillers and fantastical adventures, this year’s crop of pilots is more exciting and diverse than ever before. This year, fully half of our finalist scripts have a female writer, and our finalists come from multiple countries across the globe.

Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Top 100!

(As a reminder: If you entered into the Mentorship Program, or signed up to be part of the Guaranteed Signing or Guaranteed Option prizes, regardless of making the Top 100, you are still in contention for those prizes. Those winners are selected from the entire pool of submissions separately from the finalist rounds, and will be announced alongside the winners)

WELCOME TO THE LAUNCH PAD PILOT COMPETITION!

Year six is here, and the competition that has led to more signings, success stories and careers than any other writing competition in the world is now underway. With more than 415 signings, 145 projects set up, 64 writers staffed, 156 appearances on annual best of lists such as the Black List, Blood List, Hit List, and the Young & Hungry List, as well as 7 bidding wars, the Launch Pad Competition has become the premiere hub for Hollywood discovering new talent.

WHAT MAKES LAUNCH PAD SO SUCCESSFUL?

By utilizing our deep relationships within the industry we’ve not only become the only competition that continually features Studio Presidents and Agency/Management Company Partners as judges, but the only one that has also formed exclusive partners with people such as Ridley Scott, Michael De Luca, Roy Lee, Joel Silver, Jeremy Garelick, Adrian Askarieh, as well as companies Artillery Creative, Bellevue, Echo Lake, Endgame Entertainment, Energy Entertainment, ESA, Fourth Wall Management, Good Fear Film Management, Heroes & Villains, Inkshares, Lee Stobby Entertainment, Oil & Cattle, Paradigm, UTA and WME – all of whom have previously committed to guarantee to option material or sign writers out of our competitions.

Additionally, we continually shake up our judges pool, carefully selecting the judges we feel will best represent each competition, all the while ensuring a consistent balance of hot-newcomers and seasoned veterans. And, as you’ll see from this years list of phenomenal judges, not only do we work diligently to ensure our judges make up a creative mix of representatives who can sign writers and executives who can acquire projects, but we always work to include those who’ve had great success with our Launch Pad writers before.

WHAT MAKE US DIFFERENT FROM THE REST?

For most competitions on the market today, whether win or lose, the finish line usually comes with a brief blog post announcing winners on the competition site, immediately followed by a new competition turning on. For us, that was never even close to enough. Our focus has always been on discovery and elevation. The reality is, a vast majority of the writers working in Hollywood today got their start with a competition. But, they also lost or made finalist rounds in several that never blinked an eye. While it’s impossible to discover every great writer every year, we go to great lengths to ensure those who make any finalist rounds with us are given attention far beyond a blog post. We not only advocate for all of our finalists, and work closely with them to fine tune loglines, bios, and additional works, but we also feature all of our finalists in our high regarded Launch Pad Alum Booklets, our “Best Scripts of the Year” lists, our industry released Announcements, and via our partners we also include them in the end of year Spec Book, Hit List and Young & Hungry List.

Additionally, we work with every finalist to prepare you for what comes next – whether representation meetings, pitch meetings or generals. Preparing a series bible for your TV pilot, crafting your additional works for interested reads, and navigating the series of meetings that inevitably follow. We track every read received through the competition, and we share all of this info with you along with the way, so you know who’s reading, and can gauge how far your work truly is going. And, as our end of competition and end of year lists go out to the more than 25,000 industry members we work with, as well as to our exclusive panel of former partners and judges, we’ll work with you to be sure you put your best foot forward every step of the way.

GUARANTEED OPTION PRIZE

We are thrilled to announce our exclusive guaranteed option partner for the 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition is Bad Idea, a diversified entertainment company founded to create high quality, engaging and story-driven content for global audiences. The company is aimed at discovering and developing new voices to be heard and seen across Narrative Film, Television, Documentaries, and Emerging Platforms. Some of their recent projects have included El Chapo (Netflix) and Opening Night starring Topher Grace & Taye Diggs (Netflix), and they recently sold Deadtectives starring Chris Geere and Martha Higareda (Shudder / AMC).

As in previous competitions, our guaranteed option partner(s) will select a minimum of 1 project from this years competition to option. To be eligible for the guaranteed option prize, all entrants MUST select the “Guaranteed Option” add-on at time of sign up.

GUARANTEED SIGNING PRIZE

To continue the Launch Pad’s long tradition of helping writers to gain representation, with more than 400 signings to date, we are proud to announce this year’s Guaranteed Signing Partner as Adrian Garcia of Recon Entertainment. A former talent agent at Paradigm, Adrian Garcia went on to found his management company Recon Entertainment to continue and broaden his work with talented writers. Garcia has had writers appear on the Hit List, Black List and/or Young & Hungry List every year since 2014, and has a proven track record of signing Launch Pad writers, including winner Eric Koenig who sold his Launch Pad winning script Matriarch to Paramount in a bidding war.

As in previous competitions, our guaranteed signing partner(s) will select a minimum of 1 writer from this years competition to represent. To be eligible for the guaranteed signing prize, all entrants MUST select the “Guaranteed Signing” add-on at time of sign up.

THE LAUNCH PAD MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Here at the Launch Pad, we know that getting started in the industry can be difficult, but that the best way to learn the ropes is by working closely with experienced writers who have already proven themselves and forged a path to success. That is why the Launch Pad is proud to offer exclusive mentorship opportunities for our writers to learn from those who have been there before and have insight on the process of breaking in.

Our first mentor this year is Jenny Deiker Restivo, who is currently a writer on the hit Fox show The Resident. A firsthand example of the success that can come from the Launch Pad Competitions, Jenny won the Launch Pad Pilot Competition in 2016 and landed on the Young & Hungry List later that year. She was selected for the 2018 Fox Writers Lab and her sci-fi Pilot, VESTA, is currently on WeForShe’s 2019 WriteHer List. Jenny loves genre television and dark dramas. 

Also on board as a mentor this year is Simone Finch, who has worked for Barbara Hall on Madam Secretary and Bruce Helford on Roseanne, most recently co-writing an episode of The Conners. A native of Boston, Simone received a BA in Theatre from McGill University in Montreal before moving to Los Angeles and starting a successful climb up the industry ranks.

Our final mentor is Julian Silver, a writer who appeared on the 2018 Black List and Hit List alongside writing partner Reiss Clauson-Wolf for their script The Seventh, about Custer’s Last Stand. He has also served as a Story Editor on the CBS drama SEAL Team, for which he has written four episodes. As an actor, he has appeared in guest spots on Grey’s Anatomy and Criminal Minds. 

REAL NOTES = REAL FEEDBACK

Continuing with the same educational ideas behind the origination of the mentorship program, and continually looking to identify new ways to give our writers even more of a leg up when entering the Launch Pad Competition, we’re thrilled to announce the return of our Feedback Notes Program. Rather than receiving a few vague disconnected sentences or paragraphs from other coverage services or competitions out there, we’ve struck a deal with our professional readers (reading for places such as Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Sony, Paramount, Universal, Anonymous Content, Circle of Confusion, CAA, UTA, Paradigm, Skydance and more) to provide 1-2 pages of in-depth notes on your competition entry. With an emphasis on initial thoughts, opinions and analysis, get an inside look at what is usually a behind the curtain process, and get our readers’ perspectives on the story, characters, marketability, and ideas for where the story could go. Was it a page-turner? Did we want to see more of a character? Was the dialogue believable? Get the actionable notes and insight you deserve.

The Launch Pad is more than just a writing competition. We’re here to be the first step in starting your writing career.

The 2019 Launch Pad Pilot Competition Prizes

The Launch Pad Competition is focused on identifying, discovering and helping launch the careers of our writers. Whether you make the quarter-finalists or win it all in any of our competitions, we work with you to help polish your work, prepare for meetings, craft you pitch, identify your follow up projects, and prepare yourself for anything that comes your way on the journey to becoming a professional writer.

(As a reminder, if you select any add-ons at time of entry, regardless of where you place in the competition, you will still be in the running for those add-on features.)